Need second opinion, is my HD failing?

[Wolfgang S. Rupprecht]

Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> writes:
> On Friday 30 January 2009, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
>>Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> writes:
>>> On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Richard Shaw wrote:
>>>> 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   036    Pre-fail
>>>>Always       -       955
>>>
>>> It has to be about out of spare sectors, I haven't ever seen one that
>>> high. This is your wake up call I believe.
>>
>>Crap, a count of non-zero should be his wakeup call.  All my disks
>>that have grown bad spots soon died.  Google noticed the same thing in
>>their disk study.
>>
> Hey, I was trying to be nice.

Oops.  I wasn't meaning for it to sound emphatic.  Apologies.  It was
meant to sound like "oh crap my disk is failing".  It was meant as a
sympathetic statement.  Sorry again.  I just realized when you posted
that it could be read two ways.

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